The genus Drepanura (Collembola: Entomobryidae) in Australia: descriptions of two new species and redescriptions of five known species
Author
Ma, Yitong
Author
Chun, Zhao
Author
Greenslade, Penelope
text
Zootaxa
2015
4058
3
373
387
journal article
39249
10.11646/zootaxa.4058.3.5
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Drepanura polychaeta
sp. nov.
Figs 21−35
Types
.
Holotype
: female,
Australia
, Barrow Island,
20o 45’S
115o 25’E
, 2005/2006, collected by S. Callan.
Paratype
:
6 females
, same data as
holotype
. All deposited in SAM.
Description.
Body length up to
2.5mm
.
Ground colour yellow in alcohol. Eye patch and antennae blue-black. Anterior and lateral margins of head with dark blue pigment. Blue pigment also present on legs except tibiotarsi. A narrow longitudinal strip present on midline from Th. II −Abd. II. Abd. II −V with irregularly patches (
Fig. 21
).
Antenna 0.7−0.8 times as long as body. Antennal segmental ratio in length as I:II:III:IV = 1:1.4−1.7:1.1−1.7:1.5−2.6. Dorsal cephalic chaetotaxy with 4 antennal (An1, An2, An3a1, An3), 2 median (M2, M4) and 7 sutural (S0, S2, S3, S4, S
4i
, S5, S
5i
) macrochaetae (
Fig. 22
). Eyes 8+8, G and H smaller. Interocular chaetae as p, q, r, s, t or p, q, r, v, s, t, p chaeta larger than others (
Fig. 23
). Labral and prelabral chaetae as 4/5, 5, 4; prelabral ones ciliate, others smooth; subapical labral papillae 4, each with 3−4 secondary apical spinules (
Fig. 24
). Labial triangular chaetae as in fig. 25, 3 chaetae present between M and E, all finely ciliate.
Dorsal macrochaetae shown as in
Fig 26
. Th. II with 2 (m1, m2) macrochaetae in Mm area and 4 (m
4i
, m4, m4p, a5) macrochaetae in Ms area. Th. III with 4 (a1, a2, a2a, a3) macrochaetae in Am area and 8(9) (a
4i
2, a
4i
, a4, a5, m
5i
, m5, rarely a5e, 2 unknown) macrochaetae in As area. Trochanteral organ with 30−33 smooth spiny chaetae (
Fig. 27
). Tibiotarsus with inner differentiated ciliate chaetae, most distal one on hind leg smooth. Tenent hair thick with tip clavate, 1.2−1.6 × length of inner side of unguis. Unguis with 4 inner teeth, first pair at 0.4 distance from base of claw, and 2 unpaired teeth, first one at 0.7 and distal one at 0.8 distance from base respectively. Unguiculus acuminate with outer edge serrate (
Fig. 28
).
Abd. IV 4.5−8.5 times as Abd. III in length along dorsal midline. Dorsal macrochaetae shown in
Figs 29−30
. Abd. I with 19 central and 2−5 lateral macrochaetae on each side. Abd. II with 16−18 central and 5−8 lateral macrochaetae. Abd. III with 1 central (m3) and 3 lateral (am6, pm6, p6) macrochaetae (
Fig. 29
). Abd. IV with 53−61 central and 27−38 lateral macrochaetae (
Fig. 30
). Tenaculum with 4 teeth and 1 long ciliate chaeta (
Fig. 31
). Ventral tube anteriorly with 20 ciliate chaetae of different sizes (
Fig. 32
), laterally with 8 smooth chaetae and 1 ciliate chaeta (
Fig. 33
). Manubrial plaque with 5 ciliate chaetae and 2 pseudopores on each side (
Fig. 34
). Dens without spines, uncrenulated part 1.6−2.3 times as mucro in length. Mucro falcate and tip of basal spine not reaching apex of the tooth (
Fig. 35
).
FIGURES 21−35.
Drepanura polychaeta
sp. nov.
: 21, habitus; 22, dorsal chaetotaxy of head; 23, eyes and interocular chaetotaxy; 24, labrum; 25, labium; 26, chaetotaxy of Th. II −III; 27, trochanteral organ; 28, foot complex; 29, chaetotaxy of Abd. I −III; 30, chaetotaxy of Abd. IV; 31, tenaculum; 32, anterior face of ventral tube; 33, lateral flap of ventral tube; 34, plaque of manubrium; 35, mucro.
Etymology.
Named because of the large number of macrochaetae on abdomen.
Remarks.
This species is close to the Australian species
D. albocoerulea
(
Schött, 1917
)
in colour pattern of the abdomen, but the body chaetotaxy is different (
Table 1
). It is also similar to the Russian species
D. montana
Martynova & Chikatunov, 1968
, but each labral papilla has 3−4 secondary apical spinules in
D. polychaeta
sp. nov.
and only one in
D. montana
.